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Nielsen Rated
Friday afternoon at the Adorni Center, a brilliant spring day. Seals swam up and down the harbor, clearly visible from the great glass wall on the north side of the big multipurpose room. It was a momentous day. Inside, 37 sworn officers of the Eureka Police Department – just about the entire force, except for […]
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Mean Streets
On a Saturday night in Arcata, I walked in front of the bars on the Plaza with Officer Heidi Groszmann. Thankfully, I was not under arrest – just going with her on her rounds as a part of my four-hour ride-along. Whether it was a traffic stop or making rounds on the Plaza, Groszmann was […]
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Broadband to the Backwoods
The cream-colored box marked "RuralConnect™Trailblazer™" is just a display model mounted on a telescoping pole in the large, dark garage in what was once the Arcata headquarters of Yakima, now home to Carlson Wireless Technologies Inc. It’s one element in an exhibit the company is assembling for an upcoming telecom trade show. The square, gunmetal […]
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Tim’s Books
It was a melancholy time on the Northcoast Environmental Center’s front porch last Friday. Volunteers had set up three or four folding tables, and on each of them they had placed hundreds of books. These were the books that didn’t sell at a big booksale the weekend previous. Now they were selling for 25 cents […]
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Get Your Glitter On
If you hiked to the top floor of the Eureka Municipal Auditorium last Saturday night, it might have made you dizzy. No, not the height – though it was plummetous – but the action down below on the dance floor. Nearly 2,000 people had unwittingly formed themselves into a pulsing neon arrow (sans the real […]
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Pedagogue Cobb
A few weeks past, an explosion was reported at Arcata High School. Witnesses said that it seemed to issue from Doug Johnson’s AP Government class and that it had a vaguely Texan accent. That explosion was David Cobb. Cobb was the last in a trio of speakers to visit the 16 Arcata High AP Government […]
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No Work? No Workers!
Vince Campbell, he just got sick of it. He’d worked for Eel River Sawmills for 20 years as the environment and safety director. A good job. But for years, it seemed, the wood products industry had been crashing around him. A mill closed here, another mill closed there. When it was Eel River’s time to […]
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Fa Show
It was chilly last Thursday night at 9 o’clock. Too cold, in my opinion, to be outside wearing a tank top. But there they were, maybe a dozen girls and women, high schoolers and twentysomethings, shivering on the 5th Street sidewalk in spaghetti strap tops. Just looking at their neon-lit arms gave me goosebumps. All […]
